USS Shoup (DDG-86)

9200 tons

156 meters

20 meters

9.5 meters

32 officers, 350 teams

Two propellers, each driven over 4 gas turbines; 100,000 shaft horsepower

31 knots

96 VLS cells, 2 triple torpedo launchers, 1 artillery 127 mm, 1 Phalanx CIWS, 2 25 mm guns

The USS Shoup (DDG -86 ) is a destroyer in the United States Navy and is one of the Arleigh Burke - class. It was named after General David M. Shoup, who was in the 1960 Commandant of the Marine Corps.

History

DDG -86 was ordered in late 1996 and just three years later at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula set, Mississippi keel. After a construction period of less than one year, the ship was launched and was baptized. On 22 June 2002, after completion of the shipyard sea trials, most of which took place in the Gulf of Mexico, the Shoup was officially put into service.

The end of 2004 drove the Shoup with the USS Abraham Lincoln ( CVN -72), as the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 took place. In the new year, the Shoup then moved within the relief operation Operation Unified Assistance. In 2006, the destroyer, again with the Lincoln in the exercise Valiant Shield part. Also in 2008 was followed by a transfer to the Lincoln, who led the group in the Indian Ocean and the waters of the Persian Gulf. In May, the Shoup responded to an emergency call of a Yemeni dhow and dragged them back to home waters.

On 1 August 2010 the destroyer collided in practice drives off the coast of California with a civilian, 6.5 meter long passenger ship. Both ships suffered minor damage but were able to continue under its own power. There were no injuries. A month later moved the Shoup on the side of Lincoln in the Pacific and the Middle East.

Arming

For the defense of approaching missiles, the ship received the anti-aircraft missiles Evolved Sea Sparrow RIM -162 Missile ( ESSM ), which are fired from the Vertical Launching System. To further antiaircraft 2007 Close- In Weapon System has been installed in the form of the Phalanx MK 15 RAM later behind the aft funnel structure, which was not originally intended for the construction from DDG 85 (Block IV).